The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-18

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP BASEBALL GAME,
between Detroit and Indianapolis clubs Athletic
Club Grounds, A o'clock P. NJ.
CONVENTION OF INDIANA WOMEN'S RELIEF
CORPS. George H. Thomas Post Hall. morning and
afternoon.
GRAND OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Morris's exhi-
bition of trained animals, evening.
In Brief
The Circuit Court session will begin next Mon
day. A very heavy docket has been made up.
But few of the newsboys and boot-blacks Of the
city have complied this year with the ordinance
requiring them to take out license and Superin-
tendent Travis has given notice that, beginning
with next week. they will be prosecuted
Governor Oglesby has made a requisition on
Governor Gray for the return to CHAMPAIGN
county. Illinois, of Joseph Corwin and Oliver
Ennis, who were under arrest at Lafayette
They wanted by the Illinois authorities to
answer the charge of horse stealing.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to
Noah r. Alben and Mary L. Pruitt. Frederick
Weiser and Elizabeth Stumph, Alphonsus Gag
non and Kate Roman, William Newman and
Wilhelmina Schroeder, Lewis Sargent and Mabel
Williamson, Rolley S. Parsley and Martha
Newly.
WRECK OF FREIGHT TRAIN.
An l., B. Sc w. freight train ran off the track
near Lynn. a station a hundred miles east Of the
city. last night, and the engine and ten cars
were badly wrecked. The track was blockaded,
and all trains delayed until this morning
No one was injured in the accident
DIPHTHERIA SPREADING AMONG CHILDREN
There are not many cases of diphtheria in the
city butthe disease seems to be spreading and is
proving unusually fatal Yesterday morning two
young children of Frank Hilley, residing at No
80 West South street. died from the disease after
having been sick a short time. Several new
cases were reported yesterday
ARRESTED THE WRONG MAN.
In arresting Michael Collins Of North
Indianapolis. a charge of selling liquor with
out license, the United States marshals deputy
got the wrong man. The warrant called for
Michael instead of his brother John. against
indictments for the same offense. Michael
yesterday discharged and the right Collins
tied the claim without further controversy.
TWO BOYS SUSPECTED OF STEALING.
Yesterday afternoon two boys went to Laut-
terstein's secondhand clothing store on East
Washington street and offered to sell suit
of clothing Mr. Lautterstein suspected that
the goods had been stolen, and when he began
to question the boys, of them ran; the
other. William Hesse was held, and turned over
ing was stolen. The goods bear the trade mark
ia NJ" OF lot $3.50"
MONEY FOR FLETCHER 6 SHARPE CREDITORS
Receiver Milligan is peparing to pay over to
County Clerk Sullivan another installments of
the money due Fletcher & Shapes creditors.
The money is a part of the same dividend that
the clerk has recently been paying out, but
belonged lad not filed their claims sooner. Of
the three thousand creditors only about fifteen
hundred have received their share Of the pres
ent dividend.
:. BOYS DANGEROUS CLIMBING.
Charley Cramer. q seventeen year old boy
siding at No. 229 East Market street, created
somewhat of sensation yesterday afternoon by
climbing to the roof of the market-house and
thence to the top OF the flagstaff. The police
attempted to arrest him when he came down.
but he eluded them. On Tuesday he went up
into the tower of the courthouse and the clock,
and elm bing out on the reef. scaled the tower
walls and perched himself in front of the east
face OF the dial. His father was sailor. and he
has inherited mania for elm bing that he
says, he cannot overcome.
BRUTAL ASSAULT ON AN OLD MAN.
David Davis, Alexander Martin and VIM. J.
Miles were arrested last evening for committing
an assault on William Callahan. who is quite old.
The three men were coming down Indiana ave-
nue. in an intoxicated condition. between and
o'clock, when they met Mr. Callahan the
canal bridge They ordered him to run and
when he refused they struck him several blows
in the face. and one of them hit him across the
back OF his head with stick of wood inhicting
a serious wound. The old gentleman was res
cued by the firemen Of Company No. l, and
cared for until he could be sent home
REPENTANT coNvIcT's REQUEST.
r. J. Conner, book-keeper at the southern
prison, is taking interest in the case Of Frank
Miers. who violated his parole by drinking and
was sent back TO the penitentiary by Governor
Gray last November. Before he was released
Miers had served eleven years in prison. He
afterwards became a bartender for Sim Coy,
but unfortunately one night went off on a spree,
which closed with his shooting at a companion.
Conner has written to the Governor that Miers
has conducted himself well and gives the strong
est assurances of behaving himself if he is again
paroed. He works about the warden's house
and is engaged to marry a servant girl in the
employ OF the warden. The Governor has not
yet decided to again parole the prisoner
POSTMASTER JONES DIDN'T MAKE THREATS.
The letter carriers employed in the Indianapolis
postoffce have signed a statement denying that
any of them were questioned by Postmaster Jones
as to how they would vote at the coming muni-
cipal election. W. w. Hall, Democratic car
rier living in the Third ward, seems to have
been the person referred to in the briefinterview
published in the Journal yesterday. Mr.. Hall
says it is true that he has told several persons.
Postmaster Jones among these, that he would
for Cal Darnel, because he believed Mr..
had, but he claims that the postmaster did not.
as reported, intimate that he had better not do
so.
IDENTIFIED A THIEF AS HIS OWN SON.
Last Saturday Superintendent Travis received
notice from Edinburg that a family named
Sims, residing near that place, had been robbed,
and among other things that were stolen was'a
$50 silk dress belonging to Mrs Sims On Tues
day detectives Haley and Thornton found the
dress and some other articles at a secondhand
store on East Washington street Yesterday
morning the same man who had sold the stolen
goods returned with some more to sell, and the
police were notified He was arrested and Mr..
Sims was informed of the recovery of his goods.
He came the city last evening and identified
the thief as his own son, Luke a. Sims, aged
twenty-seven. He refused to prosecute the
young man and Superintendent Travis relea sed
him.
A WARNING TO REAL. ESTATE OWNERS
An ordinance passed seventeen years ago re-
quires that all streets and alleys in additions
to the city shall conform to the lines of the old
streets and alleys. But little attention was paid
to it, and several of the additions laid out sine.
1873 have nothing in common with the older
parts of the city. In Johnson's additions the
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